The effect of opinion clustering on disease outbreaks

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 1505-1508

  Salathé, Marcel ^a   Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clustering; Herd immunity; Infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; VACCINES;

BELIEF SYSTEMS; CLUSTERING; CURRENT ESTIMATES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HERD IMMUNITIES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; OPINION FORMATION; RANDOM MIXING;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACCINATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC OPINION; VACCINATION;

EID: 58749113283     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0271     Document Type: Article

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